“Church Building in 17th-Century Virginia” program announced

Historic Christ Church and Museum will host architectural historian Carl Lounsbury via Zoom on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 10 a.m. for “Church Building in 17th-Century Virginia.” A historian at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for over three decades and an adjunct associate professor at the College of William and Mary, Dr. Lounsbury will trace early Virginians’ efforts to replicate in the colony the form, plan and fittings of contemporary English practices.

Lounsbury will show how the churches built at Jamestown in 1608, 1617 and in the early 1640s set important precedents for what would follow in Virginia over the next century and a half and how these contrasted with the forms colonists adopted in Anglican churches in Maryland, North Carolina and New England. Richly illustrated and incorporating findings from recent archaeological investigations at Jamestown, Lounsbury’s presentation will showcase the history and evolution of one of colonial Virginia’s most important building forms.

To register, email Foundation for Historic Christ Church Office Manager Nat McMaster at nmcmaster@christchurch1735.org. You will receive a Zoom invitation…